Full-featured pocket megazooms

Casio's 10x-optical-zoom EX-FH100 has a rapid-fire mode that snaps 40 shots per second and shoots RAW-format images.

And Samsung's 7x-optical-zoom CL80 has an AMOLED touchscreen, Wi-Fi connectivity, and an innovative design.Tim Moynihan

A mighty mini

The business-oriented HP Mini 5102 builds on the company's netbook line-up by adding a capacitive-multitouch display that makes flipping though documents or managing images more intuitive on such a small PC.

It comes in AMD and Intel versions and offers options for 3G and WiMax connectivity as well.Robert Strohmeyer

From genuine 3D technology to slick new e-readers, these products are the best of the crop from this year's International Consumer Electronics show. Get all CES news here.

E-reader done right

I've seen a lot of e-readers lately, and in spending some quality time with Spring Designs' Alex Reader, I came to appreciate much about the company's approach to e-readers.

It doesn't have the biggest display, nor the most colourful one.

But this Android-based device does have a highly usable and well-integrated LCD, and its ability to flow content browsed anywhere on the web to the e-reader gives this model a unique edge over the competition. Melissa J. Perenson

Another excellent e-reader

E-readers were one of the hottest categories of the show this year, and the most compelling new model we've seen is the Plastic Logic Que.

This 10.7in reader sports a capacitive-touch display that lets you gesture through page turns.

It will be available in the US April in a 4GB Wi-Fi version for $649 (£398), and an 8GB version with Wi-Fi and 3G for $799 (£491).Robert Strohmeyer

From genuine 3D technology to slick new e-readers, these products are the best of the crop from this year's International Consumer Electronics show. Get all CES news here.

An avalanche of e-books

A slew of new e-book readers (including the much anticipated Plastic Logic Que and iRiver Story), plus Amazon's announcement of a global Kindle DX and the unveiling of Microsoft-centric Blio software for graphics-heavy content, were the major symptoms of e-book fever at CES.

If the makers can get the prices down, e-books could really go mass market.Yardena Arar

Revolutionary car tech

Ford's upcoming MyFord Touch dashboard has proven one thing. The auto giant has realised that cars needn't lag woefully behind the rest of the technology world.

MyFord, which will appear in the 2011 Ford Edge, can connect to the internet with a USB modem, play gobs of media, and, in the future, let you operate mobile apps from the dashboard or by voice.

It could be the greatest in-car innovation since the auxiliary port. Jared Newman

From genuine 3D technology to slick new e-readers, these products are the best of the crop from this year's International Consumer Electronics show. Get all CES news here.

Boxee gets boxed

D-Link is the first vendor to come out with a dedicated piece of hardware for the lauded Boxee home media management software.

The box is oddly shaped, but it won't take up much space when it sits next to a TV. It streams internet video and connects wirelessly to your computer, so it can play back media files, such as music, photos, and video, on your TV.

You get Boxee's cool user interface, as well as a long list of supported file formats; you can play virtually any kind of video on it.Mark Sullivan

A Set-top box that pops

This new home media player features 20 media partners, including Blip.TV (for video content), Twitter (for social viewing), and Clicker (for locating premium video from all over the internet).

Lots of these network video players are showing up now, but Popbox seems to have perfected the interface: It's nice to look at, intuitive, and easily searchable, which is more than I can say for some other entrants in this market.Mark Sullivan

From genuine 3D technology to slick new e-readers, these products are the best of the crop from this year's International Consumer Electronics show. Get all CES news here.

Internet radio revived

Internet radio has been around for a few years now, but Pure has put an innovative twist on it with the Sensia.

With a colourful touch interface, a stylish design, and an endless library of stations from all over the world, the Sensia is one of the most entertaining gadgets I saw at the show.Ginny Mies

Skylight Smartbook

The Lenovo Skylight is the company's first entry into the emerging smartbook category, and the device looks promising. It weighs less than 1kg, offers 10 hours of battery life, and has Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity.

But with 7 and 10in versions letting you drag, swipe, and tap across two screens at once, these keyboardless folding tablets are a killer combination of compact portability and large-screen usability.Robert Strohmeyer

Old-school gaming, anywhere

Here's my nerdy secret: On long flights, I've been known to bust out a wired Xbox 360 controller and play classic video games on my laptop.

Ion's GoPad makes more sense; this NES-like controller folds into a palm-size cube and has a retractable USB cable.Jared Newman

From genuine 3D technology to slick new e-readers, these products are the best of the crop from this year's International Consumer Electronics show. Get all CES news here.

Stalking the wild gadget

One of the big press events (Digital Experience) went all out with a safari theme, including women in skimpy giraffe costumes and outrageous face and body makeup. Think Cats with spots and platform footwear.Yardena Arar

Putting the lap back in laptops

Just set a notebook on this heat-dissipating pad and connect the two via USB to power a fan that blows cool air through the pad's ventilated surface; the same cable also channels audio output to the N700's built-in speakers. Yardena Arar

From genuine 3D technology to slick new e-readers, these products are the best of the crop from this year's International Consumer Electronics show. Get all CES news here.

The need for speed

For data speed demons, USB 3.0 - announced by a slew of vendors - is shaping up as a promising connection interface.

Our early tests of Western Digital's new My Book 3.0 revealed a desktop hard drive with plenty of performance mojo.

While WD's first USB 3.0 product is a desktop 3.5in drive, I'm personally looking forward to Seagate's Black Armor PS110, a portable 2.5in drive; over an actual USB 3.0 port, such as that announced on some HP models, this drive can run, unpowered, at faster speeds than its USB 2.0 cousins.Melissa J Perenson

Intel cuts the cord

Intel's Wireless Display is exactly what it sounds like - a laptop equipped with the technology to connect to your TV at the push of a button.

But there's no magic here, since the laptop is actually streaming to an adapter connected to your TV.

One caveat: Streaming is unprotected, so it doesn't yet support protected content such as Blu-rays and DVDs. Dell, Sony and Toshiba will be releasing laptops featuring the technology on January 17. Nate Ralph

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Jimboweb said: Comments,Jimboweb,Done right? At that price only idiots wouldn'd buy the books! E-readers are a rip off and as long as journos keep telling them how good they are they will continue to be. Recent headlines telling how "more e-books were sold on Christmas day than books" only show how low journos will crawl...no reader needs to buy a book on Christmas day they are all to busy reading those that were given as gifts!